Summer cake - creepy-crawly (royal icing cake)

We had been invited to a summer party at my daughter, Caroline's, kindergarten, and every body had to bring something to the buffet. Caroline wanted to bring a cake (no surprise there) and she wanted a Lego cake.

However, this morning I realized that had mysteriously run out of fondant (wherefore making the Lego pieces would have been impossible), so she was asked to come up with a different wish for a cake. She asked if we could bring a creepy-crawly cake in stead....and I accepted the request (but mainly because, and I didn't have time to get some,...)

So rather than making Lego pieces, I spend my morning making spiders, ants, beetles, ladybirds and butterflies. It's very messy and lots of time for drying is required, but it's fun!

The cake was a chocolate sponge (250g sugar beating with 4 eggs. 250g of melted butter added. Then 250g minus 4 table spoon flour is mixed in together with 4 table spoons of cocoa, 2 tea spoons of baking soda and 150 of chopped dark chocolate).

The cake was baked for 45 minutes at 175 celcius, turned up side down on to serving tray, soaked in plain syrup and covered with cocoa/butter creme. The sides where piped with royal icing and the sugar bugs attached to that.